North Wilkesboro, NC, USA
Huge glowing yellow light appeared and zoomed to the ground very, very fast east of North Wilkesboro
Report quality: Moderate47/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-08
- Where
- North Wilkesboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 sec
- Geo
- 36.158, -81.148 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-wilkesboro-nc-2011-8f49f9
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in North Wilkesboro, NC.
- This case is one of 195 North Carolina reports filed in 2011.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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